Insights From the Field

Understanding Geography, Culture, and Service

Introduction

Insights From the Field is designed to engage students in an inquiry about themselves and others as they focus on a culture other than their own. Learning activities and performance tasks are designed to help students:

Appendix B: Background on the Dominican Republic

Standards and Central Ideas

This publication is standards-based and organized around big ideas—concepts, principles, and enduring understandings that extend over several subject areas. For more information about the standards and central ideas behind Insights From the Field, click here. (pdf–56 KB)

Enduring understandings refer to important ideas or core processes that have lasting value beyond the classroom. To determine enduring understandings, teachers should ask what they want students to understand and be able to use in the future, after they have forgotten the details. For a list of suggested enduring understandings in Insights, click here. (pdf–28 KB)